See the Final Photos of the Reality Star & Slain Model

Ryan Jenkins, 32, was found dead in a suburban Vancouver motel room on Sunday, ending the search for the millionaire at the center of an international manhunt in the grisly slaying of model Jasmine Fiore.

"I'm relieved he's not going to hurt anybody else now, but I'm still angry," Lepore told the News. "I'm absolutely furious that he took the life of such a creative soul with such a magnificent future."

Gruesome Details Revealed in Model's Murder

As they announce a warrant for the arrest of Ryan Alexander Jenkins, investigators reveal brutal details in the death of Jasmine Fiore right in front of grief-stricken family and friends of the model found stuffed in a suitcase in a trash bin. (Published Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009)

Jenkins, described as a con man and a player wanna-be, came off as a smooth, confident professional when he first met Fiore, a voluptuous blonde bombshell, at a Las Vegas club in March.

Two days later, the pair was married in a quickie wedding.

Suspect Is an Animal: Friend

A friend of Jasmine Fiore, Robert Hasman who said he once dated the model who was found stuffed in a suitcase in a trash bin, asks the suspect's family to stop aiding his escape. (Published Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009)

"He had stars in his eyes," Lepore said yesterday. "He was totally jazzed, like, being a star."

The aspiring model and actress may have become enamored with the polished professional after a streak of hard luck, landing low-budget jobs like dealing cards at the Palms' Playboy Club or working as a cocktail waitress on the Strip. It was a gamble for which she paid the ultimate price.

Boat Seized in Fiore Case (Courtesy: Global National News)

Boat Seized in Jasmine Fiore Case
U.S. authorities have seized a boat that may be involved in the Jasmine Fiore case (courtesy: Global National News). (Published Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009)

Fiore's naked body was found on Aug. 15 stuffed in a suitcase that had been tossed in a dumpster. Jenkins removed her fingers and pulled out her teeth to make identifying the corpse more difficult, cops said.

She was identified by the serial numbers on her breast impants.

"If my son was guilty, he was crazy. He was not the boy we knew. The boy we knew was not capable of anything remotely close to this act," Jenkins' father, Dan, told the Los Angeles Times.

But law enforcement officials say Jenkins was driven to hang himself from the clothes rack in a closet in room 2 at the Thunderbird Motel because the guilt of the brutal murder weighed so heavily on him.

"He killed himself because he knew he was in fact guilty and he knew the authorities were closing in," Orange County district attorney Susan Schroeder told the News.

A blonde woman who may have helped Jenkins escape is now being sought by cops. It is believed she checked into the motel with Jenkins.

"This man was a professional con man," Lepore told the "Today" show yesterday. "He targeted women I believe. He wanted to be something and he wasn't," she said.

Fiore's ex-boyfriend, also speaking on "Today," said he was in contact with the model via text message before her death.

"I was happy that he killed himself," Robert Hasman said.

Jenkins, a real estate developer and investor from Canada, claimed he had between $1 million and $2.5 million in assets on the show. VH1 is no longer airing the show in light of the investigation.

VH1 canceled "Megan Wants a Millionaire" and also pulled the plug on "I Love Money 3," which included Jenkins as a contestant. The show features ex-VH1 reality alumni competing for buckets of cash and was likely to air sometime in 2010.